if a pen runs out, it has no more ink left in it
if an official agreement or document runs out, it stops being legal at a certain date
if someone is run out in cricket, they have to stop hitting the ball and leave the field because the other team hits one set of stumps (=sticks) with the ball before they can reach it
if something runs out, you do not have any more of it left
if time is running out, you do not have long to do something
to make a criminal or a person who you do not like leave a town
to use all of something and not have any left
Luck which could continue indefinitely, or run out at any time.
Many hospitals are running out of money.
My contract runs out next July.
Nevertheless, the money wouldn't last for ever, and then his luck would run out.
She desperately wanted to hold her son just once more, but after the endless hours of waiting she had run out of time.
The boys I knew when I was young and the men I've known since then... "I run out of steam.
They returned home from South Africa when their money ran out.
When does your passport run out?
runs out
running out
ran out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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